“In the U.S. alone, we throw away 37 million tons of wood waste,” said Eric Law, co-founder and CEO of Urban Machine. “That’s about half of what we harvest every year.” Law saw tremendous opportunity ...

More than 10 years ago, Dave Hakkens, a then-student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released a free, replicable design for a plastic recycling machine, Euronews reported. This design was made ...

Food waste makes up an estimated 30% to 40% of the food supply, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture — and now a London company is using artificial intelligence in an attempt to address the ...

ASU is enhancing its efforts to improve landfill diversion with a new type of waste-sorting system installed last week. With the amount of foot traffic through the MU, it was necessary to find a way ...

We live in a world where we treat very little with long-term importance. How frequently do you run into a piece of furniture that's more than 100 years old, that has been passed down from one ...

Ever increasing solid waste production has been threatening natural environment and human safety in recent years. With increasing urbanization worldwide, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) has increased ...

A new machine is giving used nappies and sanitary products an unexpected second life in a waste innovation breakthrough.

In the course of a week, my kitchen produces a shocking quantity of what we might think of as edible trash: apple peels, garlic nubs, a bit of gristle from a steak, Dorito dust, tea bags, the ...